Playful and sexy blonde red lips, just the right beauty mole, the white dress blown by the wind and the beauty who covers her legs with a little panic, this is the lens of Marilyn Monroe frozen in the hearts of many viewers.
In the early morning of August 5, 1962, the Los Angeles Police Department received an alarm call from Monroe's personal doctor, Ralph Greenson, and an era of star-studded blondes and innocent sexy creatures officially came to an end.
Marilyn Monroe, after crossing the turn of the century, is still a name that makes people full of fantasy when mentioned.
From the upside-down and lonely bastard daughter, to the high-profile film and television superstars of The Golden Age of Hollywood, from the wives of ordinary sailors to the secret lovers of the suspected president, Marilyn Monroe's short life is full of legends, and even death is particularly mysterious.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > bizarre death</h1>
Shortly before Monroe's death, a reporter visited and did an interview, and the reporter said in the video released after her death that Monroe's mood was very unstable and she was suffering from some mental distress during the interview.
At the time of her death, Monroe's home was in Brentwood, Los Angeles' famous wealthy district, and the police could not even relate what they saw to the glamorous superstar on the screen when they entered the room.
She was lying naked on the bed, still holding the phone that had not been put down, her face was not perfectly makeup, and even the skin on her face was sagging and puffy, showing a state of aging that was very different from the screen and did not belong to this age.
At the age of 36, her face showed the state of an old man, and she died in a strange posture on the bed, and this scene actually became her last photo, which was also sad and lamentable.
Perhaps because of Monroe's youthful age and her overly glamorous and compelling identity, the police subconsciously felt that this was a criminal case.
However, after actually arriving at the scene, it was found that everything in Monroe's room was so calm, the room was neat and orderly, there was no trace of fighting, Monroe had no obvious scars on her body, and the only thing that could faintly tell monroe's death seemed to be a few sleeping pill bottles scattered at the head of the bed.
Monroe's personal doctor told the police that unlike her optimistic and naïve character, Monroe herself suffered from depression and mental illness for a long time and had to take medication to sleep every day, and Monroe's housekeeper Morrie also confirmed that Monroe was in a very depressed mood for a while before her death.
In this way, it is not excluded that there are large doses of drugs, and the police take pictures to collect evidence and take Monroe's body away.
Eventually, after a post-mortem examination, the forensic doctor found that Monroe's blood contained a large number of sleeping pills, a dose sufficient to cause death, and Monroe's cause of death was revealed, and she died due to drug overdose.
For the cause of Monroe's death, there are many opinions among the people, people have to guess everything that Monroe encountered before her death from a bizarre point of view, but there is no convincing logic and evidence to support, perhaps it can be understood as people's fleeting grief and reluctance for beautiful things, and finally want to find a reason for the beautiful death.
In fact, for this actress, who once became synonymous with the "American Dream" of an era, obsessed with the cause of her death, it is better to appreciate the ups and downs and unique style of her life.
This woman, who has never had attention and love since birth, eventually passed away with the yearning and admiration of thousands of movie fans.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > miserable beauty</h1>
In Marilyn Monroe's final interview, she repeated that childhood is to be spent happily, and she was always like a happy outsider, until she became famous and felt that the world was more and more kind to her.
Monroe's former name was Norman Jane, and this poor little girl never knew who her biological father was, and even her mother was not reunited until she was six years old.
Monroe was fostered in the same very poor family as soon as she was born, and the foster life under the fence ran through her entire childhood.
Even if he was briefly reunited with his mother in the middle, he was quickly sent to an orphanage and then went through more than a dozen adoptive families.
Monroe's mother, who had a family history of mental illness, was forcibly held in a mental hospital before she was sent to an orphanage, where her grandfather and grandmother died, and her uncle also died by suicide.
Shrouded in the haze of her family's psychiatric history, Monroe even foresaw her future, saying that she would be "a girl who was found dying in a small partition room at the end of the corridor, holding a sleeping pill bottle in her hand", which is even very similar to the reported death scene of Monroe, which makes people can't help but think that this is not a cliché.
Nine-year-old Monroe was even sexually assaulted by the foster family man, who leaned against the door and threw her a coin after the sexual assault.
She tried to ask for help, but no one paid any attention to her accusations, and her pain was exchanged for an aunt's reprimand and the inattention of the church people.
Happiness, love, freedom, these things that ordinary children can easily have, Monroe's childhood never got, she did this as a "happy outsider", wandered through childhood, at the age of sixteen, she married a "good man", Sailor Jim.
The marriage lasted only four years, the reason for the breakdown of the marriage is not well known, Monroe once wrote in her autobiography that the reason for the divorce was that she did not want children, and her unhappy childhood made her afraid of bringing such an unhappy life to her children.
However, the BBC also mentioned in the documentary that Monroe in her first marriage was appreciated by a photographer of a military magazine who thought she had the potential to become a star, and Monroe, who was still working in the factory at the time, was only nineteen years old, and she saw her beauty in the photographer's lens for the first time and experienced the joy of showing herself in front of the camera.
Monroe, who has been wandering around since childhood and never received attention, has always loved to fantasize that everyone is pampered by themselves, and the star dream seems to be able to turn this fantasy into reality.
Therefore, it is speculated that perhaps the failure of Monroe's first marriage was due to the budding of her star dream, and her husband did not support her ambition to pursue her dream.
Subsequently, Monroe became a model, she ended her first marriage, moved into a small room in Hollywood, and found a new direction in life.
At this point, Norman Jane's story is over, and marilyn Monroe's era has gradually begun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Dreams and Vanity Fair</h1>
Monroe came to Hollywood with new hopes and beautiful fantasies, thinking that she was finally no longer a lonely little girl and could successfully realize the value of her life.
But Hollywood has never lacked dreamers, everyone is here to prepare for the momentum, behind every small opportunity there are countless people staring at the tiger, reality is always good at ruthlessly tearing up the fig leaf of fantasy.
There is not only brutal competition, but also countless traps hidden behind the drunken fans, and it is full of men who cheat girls into bed under the guise of producers and scout casting, cheat money and cheat salad pimps, and they can infinitely squeeze and exploit the value of the youth and beauty of these dream-chasing girls with only a little illusory hope.
"Hollywood is a crowded brothel, a vanity fair with beds for stallions."
Monroe despised the dirty deals here and refused the opportunity to sell her body at a high price, even though she was starved and the little income she earned as a model was not enough to pay for the tuition of acting classes.
She refuses money from the rich and won't let them in her house, but she goes on dates with the rich and attends some lavish parties because it will at least give her a full meal, and she hopes to find an opportunity in these parties, a "Bole" without malice.
Monroe wants to be an actress, an actor with superb acting skills and respect, and she does not want to be a vase that only shows beauty, so even if she goes through debt, she must insist on spending most of the money she earns on acting classes, as well as vocal music, dance, shape and other courses.
After two years of surviving hollywood, she won her first film and television contract from Fox, replaced the name of the lonely and poor little girl, and started her film and television career as Marilyn Monroe.
She longed for the company to give her one or two small roles, waiting for a chance to let her preliminary preparations not be adrift, but in the first contract with Fox, she did not get any film and television roles, just shooting commercials and doing some chores.
She worries every day that she can't be renewed, and once she renews her salary, she can get doubled salary, and for a period of time when the contract is about to expire, she trembles every day, fortunately the company gave her the opportunity to renew her contract, she also got a higher salary, and even got a dragon set role with a short shot.
She admires her fleeting back shot next to the protagonist, eager for more role opportunities.
However, when she needed to sign a third contract, the company did not renew her contract, and her life seemed to be back to the beginning, and she moved into a small room of an actors model club again, looking for the next opportunity.
She knows that she is still far from the standard of a good actor, when she faces the camera, the lights, the microphone, only to realize how useless her modeling work is for the actor's career, the first time she auditioned with lines, she was even nervous to say the lines, after being expelled Monroe also wanted to continue to work outside to return to Norman Jane's life, but she did not go, she thought she belonged to Hollywood.
At the most nervous and depressed time, Monroe did not know, and the opportunity had quietly come.
A familiar photographer introduced her to a job shooting monthly calendars, and even if it still didn't help her in film and television, it would at least help her earn some money to eat and attend classes.
The only problem was that the job required nude photos, which made Monroe very embarrassed, but life had left her with no choice, and she agreed, although she was also afraid that it would become a stain on her future film and television career.
Monroe asked photographers not to tell others that this was her photo, a natural and unique temperament, not offensive health beauty, which made this set of photos as soon as it broke out, it was favored by magazines and attracted the attention of many people.
Reality always likes to joke with people just right, the development of the fact is not the same as Monroe's imagination, these photos not only did not ruin Monroe's career, but brought her the opportunity to become popular.
Countless people wrote letters to the company asking for Monroe's photo, magazines and newspapers dedicated to her publication, and finally, the company decided to launch a star-making program for Monroe, before that, even the company executives did not notice that there was such a cute and sexy girl in their "backyard".
As a result, Monroe ushered in two films that made her stand out, "Gentlemen Love Blondes" and "Willing to Marry the Golden Turtle", and the company took "sexy" as her label, giving her the position of the blonde goddess with an empty head and naïve stupidity.
At this time, American social thought is in a period of transition, people's cognition of sex has changed from repression and dirty to pursuit and yearning, sex is the most natural thing in life, people should not pretend to turn a blind eye, which is also the view held by Monroe.
Sex is not depraved, sexy is an angel, Monroe's natural pure and energetic sexiness just appeared in people's vision at this time, she embodied the beauty of sexiness, became the ideal sexual partner in the hearts of countless men, the image created by the company is so appropriate to adapt to the needs of society, 27-year-old Monroe is about to embark on the peak of her life.
It was also during this period that Monroe met her second husband, a famous baseball player, Di Majo, and she was about to encounter the "Seven Year Itch", which pushed her career to its peak.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > smart woman</h1>
"The Seven Year Itch" takes Fox's character for Monroe to the extreme, a white dress and white blonde hair, accidentally blown up by the vent wind of the skirt, pure and instinctive desire are strongly intertwined, innocence, sunshine, purity, desire, this is the peak of sexiness.
During the period when feminist ideas were active in American society, Monroe was criticized for deliberately shaping some roles that were willing to act as playthings in male society.
But what everyone doesn't know is that Monroe has also won the initiative for herself many times, but it has no effect, and she can't even see the script before receiving the job, let alone choose the script.
Even before "The Seven Year Itch", Monroe had the opportunity to play a rebellious, protesting, independent and feminist role in "The Great River Goes East", but it failed, the audience did not buy it, so the company decided to let it return to the safe way.
It is not that Monroe is deliberately pandering to the aesthetics of the patriarchal society, but that the mainstream aesthetics of the society are guiding capital, and capital "kidnaps" Monroe.
In front of the company, Monroe still has no right to speak, and even still only holds a salary of 1500 US dollars.
She is not as naïve and brainless as on screen, she says that she is a smart woman, she is indeed a smart woman, she has fought, fought hard, for herself, but also for many vulnerable groups in society.
In order to have more voice in her career, she and her friends set up the Marilyn Monroe Production Center and terminated the cooperation with her old club Fox.
Naturally, the company will not let go of this cash cow, and has been entangled with Monroe for a year.
In the end, the company made some concessions to renew the contract, such as at this time Monroe's salary finally increased from $1500 to about $200,000, of course, this is still not enough compared to the hundreds of millions of box office that Monroe can bring to Fox.
From today's point of view, the company has been PUA on Monroe, telling her "You know what, you're a bullshit star." ”
She was even told that she wasn't an actress for the company, just a sex stimulant, and they didn't need her performance, just a signal of eroticism in front of the camera.
But Monroe was not bound by these spiritual oppressions, and she soon had a clear understanding of her popularity, and she also knew that fame was fickle and illusory, so she studied acting hard, and she wanted to be a performing artist, not a vase.
Resisting the temptations of money, she longed for knowledge, and worshipped knowledge, and perhaps because of this, she met the famous playwright Arthur Miller and eventually entered the palace of marriage, which was her third marriage, although it also failed five years later.
Perhaps, Monroe's struggle was not successful, and she did not get fair treatment from the company in the end, but she never stopped fighting and making progress.
In other respects, Monroe was also a wise woman who supported civil rights and racial equality, admired China under Chairman Mao, was a philanthropist who practiced humanitarianism, and donated money to support radical magazines.
Perhaps because growing up in the soil of suffering made Monroe particularly empathetic with the exploited groups, although she did not participate in the movement, she contributed her strength through donations, charity performances, interviews and autobiographies.
If Monroe had not left early, perhaps she could have helped more people and made more beneficial contributions to these vulnerable groups in American society, but the reality is not if, Monroe will always stay at the beautiful age of 36.
"I can show anything, but I'm not a model, not just show, I think it's rude for you to say that, I want to be an artist, an actress."
In the interview of Monroe before her death, there was a conversation in which the reporter asked Monroe if she could already show it to the audience freely, and Monroe replied to the above paragraph.
Monroe, you could say that she is a female star who is remembered by people who are reduced to the label of "sexy", or that she is a great actress who has left a name in film history, but she herself must be inclined to the latter and has worked hard for it all her life.
Monroe, who entered the film world, seems to have everything she can have, but the lonely, inferior and sensitive little girl also seems to have lived in her body and has not left.
In an interview not long before leaving, she also said that she was lonely, that most people did not approve of her creativity and did not regard her as a real actress, and Monroe felt that they just wanted to get some benefits from themselves crazy, and they were eager to divide themselves into several parts.
Monroe, never just a stupid beauty, she is a strong person who really beats a bad deck of cards into a king, a ruthless warrior who fights against the suffering and capital of life with her flesh and blood.
Not allowing the world to see the white head may be her tenderness and relief to herself, in any case, she has left a strong mark in the history of film.